Vote counting has been going on since Monday at the Santa Clara County registrar of voters. They have a great head start because 345,000 ballots have already been turned in, that's almost 40 percent of all registered voters.

There are 836 polling places; part of the reason Santa Clara County has been notoriously slow when it collection office from the precincts. But they're hopeful they'll have a big chunk of ballots tallied because of early voting and vote by mail.